Catalogue of Artificial Intelligence Techniques

Interlingua

One of the two mainstream approaches to machine
translation which involves using an intermediate
language as a pivot between the languages to be translated, and
provides at least a semantic representation of the text to be
translated. The intermediate representation is usually some
logic-based notation for the semantics.
In an interlingual approach to machine translation the main components
would be a mapping from the source language to the interlingua
(analysis component), and another from the interlingua to the target
language (generation component). The interlingua approach is mostly
used in systems translating between many languages, where its main
advantage is that only one analysis and one generation component have
to be built for each language involved. Compare with
Transfer.